EGR News

February 26, 2026 5:00pm | Buttrick Hall Atrium Come and join a concert of the Vanderbilt New Music Society (VNMS), a student-led group dedicated to creating contemporary music and bridging different academic and creative fields at Vanderbilt. In this performance members of VNMS will use some of the work featured… Read More

Metin Hakverdi, Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation for the German government and a member of Germany’s federal parliament, will reflect on leadership, democratic cooperation, and the future of the transatlantic partnership on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

  Caroline Jessen is a scholar of German literature at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History & Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig. Her research explores historical concepts of cultural property at the interface of literary studies, provenance research, and cultural history. Her current project explores the impact of… Read More

Senior Lecturer of German Studies, Claire Scott, has been elected Vice President/President Elect of the Coalition of Women in German (WiG). Claire will also be organizing this year’s High School German Day on February 23, 2023. For more information, please send Claire an email!… Read More

Pictured left to right: Senior Associate Dean Roger Moore, Isaac West, Allison Anoll, Anna Marie Bohmann, Mario Rewers, Erika Grundstrom, Richard Haglund, Issam Eido, Denis Zhernokleyev, Interim Dean Tim McNamara. Denis Zhernokleyev, senior lecturer of German, Russian, and East European Studies, received the 2023 Arts & Science… Read More

Universitaet BielefeldSonderforschungsbereich SFB 1288: Praktiken des Vergleichens.Die Welt ordnen und veraendern. Elisa Ronzheimer is a scholar of German and comparative literature at Bielefeld University. In her research, she is interested in contemporary poetry and theories of the lyric, historical, and contemporary cultures of sensibility and practices of comparison… Read More

Can you tell us something about your background? I am Franco-American, born in the United States but with French family. When I was young, my family moved to Brazil where I lived for almost six years and learned Portuguese. Both my family background and upbringing have strongly shaped my sense… Read More

We conducted an interview with two of our current majors to ask them about why they decided to pursue European studies. Please introduce yourselves! MP: “My name is Mitchell Pope. I am 23, I am just going to be graduating this May, and I’m a European studies major with a… Read More

Lisa Gotto’s Big Screens, Small Forms: Visual Varieties in Digital Media Culture (2022) has been published by transcript Verlag, with Rudolph Saliba, Senior Lecturer in German, as a contributing translator for twelve of the volume’s sixteen essays. In Big Screens, Small Forms, Gotto investigates the medial diversity of screens… Read More

At the end of March several Russian language students performed two Russian songs – “Katyusha” and “Na Chasakh Nol’-Nol'” as part of the McTyeire “Mixer”.  The instrumental and vocal soloists are Jasmine Ding and Byron Yin. Watch their performance by clicking on below image:        … Read More

In her review of Fradl Shtok’s From the Jewish Provinces, Rokhl Kafrissen describes how “One of the pleasures of Shtok’s prose is how alive it is with the lush symbolism of a landscape shared by Jews and Ukrainians. This external world of botanical imagery is deployed masterfully by Shtok,… Read More

Question: Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Bethanie: I grew up in Salisbury, a relatively small town in the middle of North Carolina. At Vanderbilt, I study Chemistry and MHS with a minor in German and I’m a member of APO and VSVS. I love dogs, art,… Read More

In fall 2021, Emily Greble published her ground-breaking Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (Oxford University Press). Now, the reviews are coming in! Recent reviews: Chatham House (Maryyum Mehmood) (February 4, 2022) Esglobal  (Frances Gilles)  (January 4, 2022) Irish Times (Christopher Kissane) (January 29, 2022) Related… Read More

Katie David, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, was recently interviewed on a CBC radio show about current events in Ukraine. “What’s behind Vladimir Putin’s push for control over Ukraine?” Western leaders have been meeting this week to coordinate a strategy to address the presence of about 100,000 Russian troops… Read More

Lee Cameron, BA ’24, is a major in Statistics and Computer Science. He lives in the German floor of McTyeire International House and serve as McTyeire’s current president. The interview was conducted by Professor Silke Schade, Director of Undergraduate Studies for German Studies at Vanderbilt. What is something interesting about… Read More

Mellon Assistant Professor Katie David published an article in the Washington Post about the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, entitled “History reveals what Putin really wants to do in Ukraine.” Click here to read the whole feature. [December 2021]  … Read More

“Beth—that is the House: Paul Celan’s Hebrew Dwelling,” in Heidegger in the Literary World: Variations on Poetic Thinking, Florian Grosser and Nassima Sahraoui (Eds.), (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021), 67-80. “[The article] stages an encounter between Martin and Heidegger and Paul Celan through the latter’s poem Hüttenfenster (Tabernacle Window). Read More

In conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Emily Greble discusses what foregrounding Muslims’ agency implies for the writing of European history; what were key legacies of the Ottoman Empire and how Muslims became a distinct legal minority; in what ways they related to the major political movements of the twentieth… Read More

Pythagoras’s Veil 2.0   “Thousands of college instructors, after doing their job for the last year primarily from home and via video, are back to teach in real classrooms and lecture halls this fall. Instead of seeing their students locked into separate Zoom tiles on screen, they finally face them… Read More